Rhipidandrus paradoxus (Beauvois, 1820)

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.143989
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15027945
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scientific name	Rhipidandrus paradoxus (Beauvois, 1820)
status

Collection information.

USA: Georgia: Clarke Co.: a single individual from one site. Caught in flight trap from 25 March – 9 April 2020.

Distribution.

Eastern North America.

Saproxylic habits.

Adults occur on oyster mushrooms ( Cline and Leschen 2005) and toothed fungi ( Hericium Pers. ( Hericiaceae ) and Hydnellum P. Karst ( Thelephoraceae )) ( Ciegler 2014).

Conservation.

Apparently lost after 1925 from the fauna of Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly due to changing forest conditions ( Steiner 2008).